Broon Watch

Bloomsbury now has a fixed date, and a cover for Broon's tie in with the leadership contest / coronation thoroughly worthwhile and wholly unpolitical book, 'The Courage of Heroes', as discussed previously.

And the date, people, is 4th of June. Which co-incides with the suicide of Emily Davidson, Socialist Léon Blum becoming French Prime Minister, the crushing of the Tianamen Square protest and a military coup in Argentina. Still, it is also Angelina Jolie's birthday, and the anniversary of Heydrich's assassination, so it isn't all ecce equus pallidus.

A female socialist betting-manager friend of mine has always observed that Emily Davison (note the spelling, not Davidson) managed to mess up a perfectly good race meeting. She doesn't get any sympathy from us. Why couldn't she have disrupted a football match instead?

Everyone who had money on the race - especially on "Amner" would have been furious.

There is also a good question as to whether she actually intended to kill herself. She did, for example, buy a return rail ticket.

Yes dale has something telling up on this to. Terific stuff C you are a top rootler and rifler I think we pretty much know where we stand now . In fact the continued presence of Blair is becoming a nonsense with Cameron literally talking though him.